T-Cell MyD88 Is a Novel Regulator of Cardiac Fibrosis Through Modulation of T-Cell Activation

BACKGROUND: Cardiac inflammation in heart failure is characterized by the presence of damage-associated molecular patterns, myeloid cells, and T cells. Cardiac damage-associated molecular patterns provide continuous proinflammatory signals to myeloid cells through TLRs (toll-like receptors) that converge onto the adaptor protein MyD88 (myeloid differentiation response 88). These induce activation into efficient antigen-presenting cells that activate T cells through their TCR (T-cell receptor). T-cell activation results in cardiotropism, cardiac fibroblast transformation, and maladaptive cardiac remodeling. T cells rely on TCR signaling for effector function and survival, and while they express MyD88 and damage-associated molecular pattern receptors, their role in T-cell activation and cardiac inflammation is unknown.

METHODS: We performed transverse aortic constriction in mice lacking MyD88 in T cells and analyzed remodeling, systolic function, survival, and T-cell activation. We profiled wild type versus Myd88-/- mouse T cells at the transcript and protein level and performed several functional assays.

RESULTS: Analysis of single-cell RNA-sequencing data sets revealed that MyD88 is expressed in mouse and human cardiac T cells. MyD88 deletion in T cells resulted in increased levels of cardiac T-cell infiltration and fibrosis in response to transverse aortic constriction. We discovered that TCR-activated Myd88-/- T cells had increased proinflammatory signaling at the transcript and protein level compared with wild type, resulting in increased T-cell effector functions such as adhesion, migration across endothelial cells, and activation of cardiac fibroblast. Mechanistically, we found that MyD88 modulates T-cell activation and survival through TCR-dependent rather than TLR-dependent signaling.

CONCLUSIONS: Our results outline a novel intrinsic role for MyD88 in limiting T-cell activation that is central to tune down cardiac inflammation during cardiac adaptation to stress.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:133

Enthalten in:

Circulation research - 133(2023), 5 vom: 18. Aug., Seite 412-429

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bayer, Abraham L [VerfasserIn]
Smolgovsky, Sasha [VerfasserIn]
Ngwenyama, Njabulo [VerfasserIn]
Hernández-Martínez, Ana [VerfasserIn]
Kaur, Kuljeet [VerfasserIn]
Sulka, Katherine [VerfasserIn]
Amrute, Junedh [VerfasserIn]
Aronovitz, Mark [VerfasserIn]
Lavine, Kory [VerfasserIn]
Sharma, Shruti [VerfasserIn]
Alcaide, Pilar [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Fibroblasts
Fibrosis
Heart failure
Inflammation
Journal Article
Myd88 protein, mouse
Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88
Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
T lymphocytes

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Date Completed 22.08.2023

Date Revised 10.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.123.323030

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM359931030